Valuation

CENXCentury Aluminum Company

StockNasdaqUnited StatesMaterialsEU retail investors: available

+11.3% today · +15.5% over a year

7/10 A 1–10 summary of how an instrument compares with similar ones (same sector and region) by published rules. It describes today's data; it is not a price forecast. More in the glossary → «Balanced» — higher than 74% of the instruments we score

Quality: among the best of its peers; Stability: among the weakest; priced lower than most peers. No dividend.

Century Aluminum Company (CENX) valuation against sector peers: P/E 3.7 (sector median 23.0), P/B 1.9, EV/EBIT 3.5, free-cash-flow yield 15.9%, P/S 1.1.

Ratios vs sector

Medians of Materials companies in the same region (stocks and REITs).

Lower P/E, P/B, P/S and EV/EBIT mean cheaper; higher yields, returns and margins mean more for the price. Negative multiples (losses) are left out of the medians.
MetricCENXSector medianvs median
P/E3.723.0 · n=6484% below
P/B1.92.0 · n=82near the median
P/S1.11.2 · n=828% below
EV/EBIT3.519.5 · n=5082% below
Free-cash-flow yield15.9%3.7% · n=80330% above
Dividend yield0.00%1.37% · n=89100% below
Return on equity72.6%10.3% · n=84604% above
Return on invested capital68.4%6.4% · n=65974% above
Gross margin24.7%23.9% · n=83near the median
Net debt / EBITDA−0.232.41 · n=60110% below

Value factor: 98 of 100 within the peer group. Full score breakdown →

Sector peers

The largest companies of the same sector and region.

NEMNewmont13.63.5—8.0%0.9%9/10
FCXFreeport-McMoRan24.94.114.1—0.9%6/10
ECLEcolab40.58.133.42.1%1.0%7/10
SHWSherwin-Williams31.120.9—3.7%1.2%8/10
APDAir Products & Chemicals—4.9—−0.4%2.4%1/10
CRHCRH plc17.72.514.74.0%1.2%5/10
NUENucor19.32.5—2.8%0.9%8/10
WCNWaste Connections41.76.032.12.6%0.8%6/10
MLMMartin Marietta Materials16.02.137.72.4%0.6%1/10
VMCVulcan Materials32.94.325.02.2%0.7%5/10

Fiscal-year history

From annual SEC filings; each bar is a fiscal year, labelled by the year it ended.

Filings: U.S. SEC EDGAR · ratios computed by AI-Stock Invest from public filings and end-of-day prices · latest period 30 Sep 2026 · filed 05 Nov 2026